AURORA GOLD CORPORATION

NEWS RELEASE 11-2006                                                                                               April 11, 2006

                                                             Trading Symbols:

                                                                                            NASD OTC BB: ARXG 

                                                                                            FRANKFURT: A4G.FSE, A4G.ETR

                                                                                            BERLIN-BREMEN: A4G.BER

NEWS RELEASE

Aurora Gold Corporation is pleased to announce that the Company’s wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary, Aurora Gold Mineração Ltda, has secured the mineral rights over the Branca de Neve property in the Tapajos Gold province, Pará state, Brazil. The project is located adjacent to the Company’s Piranhas property and recent rock chip sampling confirms high-grade mineralisation. 

Balcatta, WA, Australia, - April 11, 2006 - (NASD OTC BB: “ARXG”; FRANKFURT: “A4G.FSE”, “A4G.ETR”; BERLIN-BREMEN: “A4G.BER”) Aurora Gold Corporation (“Aurora Gold”), a mineral exploration company focusing on exploration and development in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Pará, Brazil is pleased to announce that the Company’s wholly owned Brazilian subsidiary, Aurora Gold Mineração Ltda, has secured the mineral rights over the Branca de Neve property in the Tapajos Gold province, Pará state, Brazil.  The project is located adjacent to the Company’s Piranhas property.

 

Based on the highly encouraging first pass rock chip results, Aurora Gold is continuing with the initial exploration programs to fast track drilling targets for the near future.

 

Significant rock chip results from the Branca de Neve Property include:

 

208 g/t Gold  with  80 g/t Silver

85 g/t Gold  with  1301 g/t Silver

45 g/t Gold  with  23 g/t Silver

32.3 g/t Gold  with  6 g/t Silver

36.7 g/t Gold  with  5 g/t Silver

 

The Branca de Neve property is located immediately East of Aurora Gold’s Piranhas property and the combined holding in these areas totals 24,210 Hectares.   The property also lies approximately 5 km north of the São João property, where recent high-grade rock chips samples were reported by Aurora Gold.  The highly prospective São Domingos property is approximately 30 km to the Southwest.

 

The Tapajos Gold Province of the Amazonian Craton has produced approximately 600 metric tonnes of gold in the past 40 years.  The province is a major magmatic province and contains more than 100 gold deposits and occurrences, generally hosted in granitiods of different paleo-proterozoic ages and affinities, as well as by gneisses, felsic to intermediate volcanic sand, minor gabbroic and metavolcanic-sedimentary rocks.  Most of the deposits are gold bearing quartz veins, with stockworks and disseminations occurring to a lessor extent.

 

Approximately 10 km to the north east of the property area is the Brazauro Resources Corporation owned Tocantinzinho project.  The Tocantinzinho project has had a long history of exploration and now Brazauro Resources Corporation boasts a large tonnage operation. 

 

Locally the Branco de Neve property geology is set in the highly prospective Pararui Granite Intrusive suite and has a series of brittle deformation events.  North South trending regional faults dominate the property and are considered to be related to the North West trending regional structures noted in this area of the Tapajos, which extend from the São Domingos property.

 

Aurora Gold is confident that further high-grade gold systems will be identified on the property in the near future.

 

The MOU provides Aurora Gold Mineração Ltda with a review period to access the gold potential of the property. If Aurora Gold Mineração decides to proceed with acquiring a 100 percent interest in the title to the mineral rights then Aurora Gold Mineração would give notice to the vendors of its intention to acquire title to the mineral rights at least five days prior to the expiration of the aforementioned period. Aurora Gold Mineração and the Vendors would then enter into an Option Agreement for the Assignment and transfer of the mineral rights.

 

The terms of the Branco de Neve option agreement, as specified in the MOU, allow Aurora Gold Mineração to perform geological surveys and assessment work necessary to ascertain the existence of possible mineral deposits which may be economically mined and to earn a 100% interest in the Branco de Neve property mineral rights via structured cash payments.  The total option agreement payments for the licence are structured as follows: April 12, 2006 – R$35,000 (Reals – Brazilian currency); October 12, 2006 – R$35,000; April 12, 2007 – R$35,000; October 12, 2007 – R$35,000; April 12, 2008 – R$35,000; October 12, 2008 – R$500,000 for a total of R$675,000. The vendor will have a 0.75% Net Smelter Royalty. The Royalty payment can be purchased at any time upon written notice to the vendor and payment of R$500,000. The option agreement can be terminated at any time upon written notice to the vendor and Aurora Gold Mineração will be free of any and all payment commitments yet to be due.

 

Aurora Gold Corporation is a mineral exploration company focusing on its newly acquired gold exploration property in the Tapajos Gold Province, State of Pará, Brazil, whose stock trades under the symbol “ARXG” on the NASD OTC Bulletin Board in the United States of America, and under the symbols “A4G.FSE” and “A4G.ETR” on the Frankfurt and “A4G.BER” on the Berlin-Bremen Stock Exchanges in Germany.

 

For Further information, please call Klaus Eckhof

Phone:             (+61) 8 9240-2836 

Mobile:                         (+61) 411-148-209

Address:                       30 Ledger Road, Balcatta, WA, 6021 Australia

Website:                       www.aurora-gold.com

 

 

 

 

 

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

 

“Klaus Eckhof”

 

Klaus Eckhof

President, CEO and Director

 

 

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